Of the sixteen million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II, not quite a thousand were from Freehold, New Jerseya bustling courthouse town home to a diverse populace that reflected the varied faces and aspirations of the nation. Award-winning author Kevin Coynes chronicle follows six young men from Freehold through the war and back home againto a town and a nation on the brink of changes larger than any of them could have imagined. Their story is the story of millions of other veterans, thousands of other towns, and it is the great epic of the last centurythe story of what America was then, in its hardest hours, and how it became what it is now.
Authors
Kevin Coyne
Additional Info
- Release Date: 2004-01-27
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780142003862
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